 It lives at depths to approximately 640 m.

On average, females are larger than males; they grow to 46 mm and 31 mm in mantle length, respectively.The type specimen was collected in the Indian Ocean near the east African coast () by the Valdivia Expedition and the species was described by the leader of that expedition, Carl Chun, the description being published in 1915.It is deposited in the Zoological Collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin.